Editorial
In Reassembling the Social, the French sociologist Bruno Latour presents a theory of agency which is fundamentally distributed. Agency here does not arise from some capacity to act freely, uninhibited by prior connections. Instead, in a networked view of the social, agency arises as a translating f...
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| Natura: | Article (Journal) Editorial |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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2024
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PentecoStudies
Year: 2024, Volume: 23, Fascicolo: 2, Pages: 105-107 |
| ISSN: | 1871-7691 |
| DOI: | 10.1558/pent.34903 |
| Accesso online: | Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://journal.equinoxpub.com/PENT/article/view/34903 Resolving-System, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1558/pent.34903 
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| Note sull'autore: | Jörg Haustein |
| Riassunto: | In Reassembling the Social, the French sociologist Bruno Latour presents a theory of agency which is fundamentally distributed. Agency here does not arise from some capacity to act freely, uninhibited by prior connections. Instead, in a networked view of the social, agency arises as a translating force between a multiplicity of connections. In fact, Latour argues that agency increases the more an actor is strapped into the social field - with each "plug-in" their capacity to act rises. "To be a realistic whole," Latour argues, "is not an undisputed starting point but the provisional achievement of a composite assemblage" (Latour 2005, 208). |
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| Descrizione fisica: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1871-7691 |
| DOI: | 10.1558/pent.34903 |